The Adventures of Old Man Coyote: With 3 Lost Chapters

The Adventures of Old Man Coyote: With 3 Lost Chapters Restored (Illustrated) (EXPRESS EDITION)

"'Listen!' It was Jimmy Skunk speaking. He had just met Peter Rabbit halfway down the Crooked Little Path just where the moonlight was brightest. But he did not need to tell Peter to listen. Peter was listening â€“ listening with all his might. Just then it came again, a sound such as neither Peter Rabbit nor Jimmy Skunk had ever heard before."

Thornton W. Burgess originally wrote the chapters that would become "The Adventures of Old Man Coyote" for newspaper serialization. They appeared in newspapers June 10th through July 9th, 1913. There were 26 daily installments, Sundays excluded.

When they were published as a book over three years later, in September 1916, three chapters were removed, probably due to space constraints. This edition is the first time those deleted chapters have been in front of readers since Americans opened their newspapers in the summer of 1913.

The 3 deleted chapters follow the animalsâ€™ increasing fear about the mysterious noises, Prickly Porky as he works himself into a fury over an insult, and Granny Fox as she realizes with growing anxiety that she is no longer the slyest predator around.

"Away ran Granny Fox, and after her ran Bowser the Hound, and all the little meadow and forest people heard his great voice and were glad that he was not after them. But Granny Fox was not worried. You see, she had fooled him so many times that she knew she could do it again. So she kept just a little way ahead of him and gradually led him toward the place where Old Man Coyote took his sun nap every day."

Thornton W. Burgess was immensely popular in the 1910s and 1920s, and remained very popular for generations afterward. It isnâ€™t just that his stories are very entertaining. Burgess was also a very knowledgeable naturalist, and almost every chapter describes real wild animal behavior. His books are as educational as they are entertaining.

But wait, thereâ€™s more. Burgessâ€™ books also gently convey wonderful little moral and practical lessons. Children love those lessons because of the delightful way the stories are told. If you find that hard to believe, just try reading this book to a child.

This Coal Creek Curios Express Edition of "The Adventures of Old Man Coyote: With 3 Lost Chapters Restored" is the same as the full-featured Coal Creek Curios restored edition except:

-- The Introduction is shortened.
-- The â€œBedtime Stories Storyâ€ is removed.
-- The 1913 newspaper illustrations are removed.
-- The illustration of the first editionâ€™s front board is removed.
-- The Grosset & Dunlap first edition endpapers are removed.
-- The images of the first editionâ€™s title page, copyright page, and â€˜Books Byâ€™ page are removed.
-- The example newspaper microfilm scan is removed.
-- The table of restored items is removed.
-- The bonus chapter with Burgessâ€™ very first Bedtime Story, â€œBilly Mink Loses a Raceâ€, is removed.

This Coal Creek Curios Express Edition DOES include from the full-featured Coal Creek Curios restored edition:

-- All 26 chapters, including the 3 restored chapters.
-- The 6 full-page illustrations made by Harrison Cady for the 1916 Little, Brown first edition.
-- The 14 full-page illustrations made by Harrison Cady for the Grosset & Dunlap edition
-- The 16 spot illustrations used for all the Grosset & Dunlap editions, taken from full-page Harrison Cady illustrations.
-- 3 additional spot illustrations, all from Harrison Cady like the others, one for each of the 3 restored chapters.
-- The bonus chapter with a sample restored chapter from the forthcoming book The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver: With 10 Lost Chapters Restored.

This Coal Creek Curios Express Edition has the minimum price allowed by Amazon.com for this type of book. To find the FULL-FEATURED Coal Creek Curios restored edition, search Amazon.com for B008JEL8IW.

Updated August 28, 2016.
Country USA
Manufacturer Coal Creek Curios
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-07-09
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Coal Creek Curios
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-07-09
Format	Kindle eBook

The Adventures of Old Man Coyote: With 3 Lost Chapters Restored (Illustrated) (EXPRESS EDITION)

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